8 Children

"Mom, should we really need to go city," Mihir asks,

"Baby isn't we decided it earlier, we will go there if both of you like their then we can stay there otherwise we can come back, okay?" Meera said

"Humph," Mihir said, Meera is helpless, she knows her son very well, even though he is now unwilling she is confident that he will like the city, and talking about her daughter Minakshi, she is too excited to go to the city. Meera lifts Mihir in her arm, Mihir gets scared and hold her tightly after that she gives him a peck and asks him.

"baby don't you trust your mom, your mom will not do anything which will harm you," Meera said with a sad tone.

"I know I just feel like something bad will happen again," Mihir said,

"brother, what bad will happen?" Minu asks in her milky voice.

"Nothing," Mihir said, after that they three talks for some time on random things after that both children left to play, seeing them Meera started to think about her past.

Flashback:

Four years ago when her father tells her to come home that day, she quickly packs her clothes and documents and goes to the brokerage, she checks the money and finds out that she just left some 25 lakhs in her back account, after seeing that she decided to sell this house, this house is bought recently so there is not much attachment with this house, so she tells her broker to sell this house, fortunately, that broker already has customer so she quickly sells the house, she again needed to come for signature after 15 days, she gives her car to the broker as a fee, and left the city.

After that she book a plane ticket and at night she leaves for Bali, in her previous life she never travels much so it can be her dream, after staying Bali for 15 days, she comes back, while she is there she enjoy life fully, she also searches other houses on the internet, and she found a very beautiful dreamlike house in kokan area, she decided to buy this, the price is 26Lakh, but it is much bigger, it comes with Mango and cashew tree garden, she also sees there is well in the backyard of the house, the house is old fashioned but full with modern equipment.

When she comes to Bali, she gets so many calls from her father, but she just ignores it, once she takes the call, and tell him, if he again tries to scold her, she will accuse him of killing her mother, she tells him that she knows how he pushes her mother, she is just trying to threaten him, but after getting silence as a response, her heart thumped, it must be that he really kill her mother, otherwise how can he be so silent like this, but after that day she never get a call from her father or another person of her family,

After 15 days she comes back and signs the document, for her apartment she gets 55 lakh, so she is happy, after buying the other house and paying the taxes she realizes that she still has 23 Lakhs, after that she sees the new house, the house is in good condition, the water connection is ready, she found out that they use solar energy instead of electricity, still, she also takes a connection, she like this house very much, the original owner of this house is a retired civil officer, they sell this house because they gonna leave the country to live with their Son who works aboard.

Meera gets the deal quite cheap, so she is quite happy, after coming here, she starts to clean the house, and even start to do gardening, unfortunately, her knowledge in this area is zero, thankfully the broker she contacted is native, and he helps her hire some cleaners and other staff, she doesn't tell anyone that she doesn't have any relative sometimes she acts like she gets a call from her relatives, and she tells them that she is divorcee, so she is gonna leave here alone.

At the start the villagers are not friendly with her after all this village is not much developed and there are mostly middle aged and old people and small children, these people think that divorce is no good, and then think that it must be the woman who is at the fault because she knows their philosophy, a woman should forgive a man, no matter what he does, but she knows that if she tells them that she is gonna become a mother before marriage they will look down on her too much.

So she made this story, there is a woman who has three children and her husband is sick, so she asks her for the job, Meera tells her to teach her gardening, and other things, and help her a little for that she also gives her good salary, she also orders lots of books, unlike the city where deliver come in two or their days, here delivery comes after 15 days, anyway, her days are gone like this, she also buy a car to go checkup.

So her days spend here while doing housework, gardening, reading learning new recipes and other things, here internet connection is too weak and talking about calls, she only gets some calls from Mihika when she is in Bali.

After coming here she changes her sim, she decided not to inform anyone her location till the birth of her children, days passed and she found out that the villagers wanted to build a building for school but they lack money, so she donates 2 Lakh for that, after her donation the way villagers look at her is changed, her days passed with some pain, mood swings, and other things, but she lives in a very peaceful environment, and also there is no one whom she can vent her anger, so she learns how to control her anger.

She also gets some nightmares of her accident and the original Meera's suffering, she also sees how her son get bullied and how he died, it make her life somewhat painful, but with the help of meditation and journaling, she somewhat overcome form this.

She feels somewhat blessed, she previously see her friends in a hotel that they needed to work in pregnancy, some woman even pressurized by their family for baby boy, they get threatened if they give birth to a girl, they needed to go back to their maternal family thankfully now this situation is somewhat changed, but still, they need to face lots of hardship.

She now realized that why it is called that pregnancy is a tough period, she feels cramps, urinary frequency, she knows it is caused due to babies weight, she sometimes feels too ashamed, thankfully she lives alone, there are also heartburn and indigestion problems, her backache is also too painful, she even can't able to eat lots of food, there are too many restrictions, she can't take medicines because it affects the baby.

She sometimes wanted to cry and sometimes wanted to laugh, she sometimes feel too tired, she sometimes feels that she is gonna die during pregnancy, she feels too alone because even though she made some friends they can't stay here with her, at night she sometimes gets scared by different noise, thankfully one day she found a wounded puppy, she treats that puppy, and found out that this puppy is quite cute, maybe the puppy guesses that she is pregnant, or maybe for other reason, he never makes trouble for her, there are plants too, which she planted when she comes here, she sometimes talks with them, like these days passed and the day of giving birth arrives.

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